page_title: List of ambassadors of Germany to France
section_title: Diplomatic missions
hierarchical_section_title: List of ambassadors of Germany to France / Diplomatic missions
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Einweihung der deutschen Botschaftsresidenz, Palais Beauharnais, in Paris: 4-19 Frau Lübke besucht die Sainte-Chapelle. 21-35 Geschenkaustausch zwischen Bundespräsident Lübke und Prinz Napoleon.
context_page_description: This is an incomplete list of ambassadors from Germany to France.
context_section_description: In 1874, the Embassy in Paris was one of only four Germany embassies alongside London, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna, Today, of 226 diplomatic missions abroad, Germany has five diplomatic and consular missions in France. The German Embassy is in Paris. In 1961, France returned the Hôtel de Beauharnais, the former German embassy in Paris which had been expropriated by France at the end of World War II, as a gesture of solidarity between the two nations. Additionally, there are four consulates-general in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg.
  The Hôtel de Beauharnais in the 7th arrondissement of Paris serves as the official residence of the German Ambassador to France.
caption: The initiation of the new German Embassy building in Paris, 1968
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